The Travel Continues!

 Well hello! Fancy meeting you here! It has been 6 months since my last blog post..can you believe it? Being a mom makes it harder to travel hence the lack of blog posts. However, we have officially started traveling again! We got our feet wet this past weekend by jet setting off to Amsterdam for thanksgiving weekend :) We decided to use home away.com for the first time and booked a houseboat in the Joordan neighborhood of Amsterdam.

We stayed on Brouwersgracht. This was the original brewery area of Amsterdam with only one original one still in existence. Traveling with a baby is definitely different than traveling with just the two of us. The amount of stuff we had to bring alone was an eye opener! We didn't get to see as much as we normally would alone, but we got to see enough to have a great weekend!

Jackson right at home on the houseboat!

View from our patio

Kitchen

Bedroom

Bathroom

Houseboat Santa Cruz

Ready to go out on the town!

Our neighbors

Crossing one of the many canals

Headed to a christmas market

One of the many "coffee shops" serving you guessed it.. weed!

Jackson was so excited he fell asleep

So pretty

Cheese!

Christmas market!

Buildings were all decorated!

You could get your picture in a snow globe!

Dutch doughnuts..mmmm

View from our houseboat at night

The ducks and swans would come to the window or patio door and quack for Jackson because he "fed" them that morning. They did this the whole time we were there. He loved feeding them and watching them. His favorite were the black one with white heads and the albino mallard. 

Ducks waiting for Jackson to feed them

The albino mallard

Beautiful morning.. all the shutters on the homes were open

The row homes were so neat

Hard to see..on the way to the Anne Frank Huis to make sure we knew where we were going so we didn't miss our appointment time at 5:20pm.

Jackson and his favorite pal sophie :)